Re: Fwd: [gentoo-portage-dev] search functionality in emerge

["Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>]

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Emma Strubell wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> If I can find an unpickler that can unpickle at a reasonable speed, my
> search implementation would be significantly faster than the one currently
> in use. I'd show you my code, but I have to admit I'm intimidated by Alec's
> recent picking apart of Doug's code! For example, I don't even know how to
> use docstrings... The code probably could be cleaned up a lot in general
> since I was eventually just trying to get it to work before it was due.

Please don't be intimidated by it. Code review is one of the best methods to
improve your skills. We all sucked at programming at one time and perhaps we
still suck in anything but our favorite language. But if we are to improve
ourselves we need to spend a lot of time reading and coding and still we will
not always get it right. Furthermore other people learn from our code review,
such as you learnt about docstrings. Here[1] is a quick explanation of them.

Have fun,

Marijn

[1]:http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/docstrings.html

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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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